AC 4963 - We Have an External and an Internal

AC 4963 [1-2, 3]

Everyone who is born a person is external and internal;
his external is that which is seen with the eyes,
and by which he is in company with people,
and by which the things proper to the natural world are done;
and the internal is that which is not seen with the eyes,
and by which a person is in company with spirits and angels,
and by which the things proper to the spiritual world are done.
The reason why
every person has an internal and an external,
or is an internal and an external person,
is that through people
there may be a conjunction of heaven with the world;
for heaven flows in
through the internal person into the external,
and thereby perceives what is in the world;
and the external person which is in the world
and from there perceives what is in heaven.
It is to this end that a person has been so created.

In respect to His Human
the Lord also had an external and an internal,
because it pleased Him to be born like other men.
The external (that is, His external man)
was represented by Jacob, and afterward by Israel;
but His internal man is represented by Joseph.

The Lord was indeed born as are other people,
but it is known that he who is born a person
derives what is his from both the father and the mother,
and that he has his inmost from the father,
but his exteriors (that is, the things which clothe this inmost)
from the mother.
Both that which he derives from the father,
and that which he derives from the mother,
are defiled with hereditary evil.
But it was different with the Lord:
that which He derived from the mother in like manner
had in it an heredity such as is that of any other person;
but that which He derived from the Father,
who was Jehovah, was Divine.
For this reason the Lord's internal man
was not like the internal of another person;
for His inmost was Jehovah.
This is therefore the intermediate which is called
the celestial of the spiritual from the rational.
But concerning this,
of the Lord's Divine mercy
more will be said in the following pages.